Semana: “Chávez lashes out against Twitter”
After an unprecedented virtual protest on Twitter, in which thousands of messages asked for his resignation and demanded a Venezuela with freedom of speech and of the press, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, asked the National Assembly deputies to prepare a law for the control of the Internet.
Twitter could be declared an “instrument of terrorism” because the deputies, in reply to the presidential request, declared that they would intervene “for the well-being of the people”, by eliminating the terrorist threats posed by social networks.
Goodbye, Internet. (Via Boing Boing.)
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
— Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)![I found this on thedailywhat:
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I found this on thedailywhat:
Buy This: “Match & Munch Sandwich Cutters” from The Spoon Sisters.
Set of 4 puzzle shapes.
Old and Busted: With the crust cut off. New Hotness: With the crumb cut up into four interlocking pieces.
[nerdapproved.]
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If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. -Woody Allen, author, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1935)
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
— Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1888-1968)A beautiful thing is never perfect. -Egyptian proverb
